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Headword: ΠολεμητέαεἶναιἐντάχειAdler number: pi,1883Translated headword: that war was to be waged with speedVetting Status: highTranslation:

Meaning that it was necessary to make war. But it should be known that such expressions of obligation have adverbs in them,[1] [sc. implying] either χρή ["ought to"] or δεῖ ["must"], like γαμητέον , meaning one ought to marry, πλευστέον , meaning one must sail, and οὐ παραδοτέα [2] meaning one ought not to hand over.
"It seemed to them that it was necessary to make war on the Romans at the beginning of spring."[3]
"Thus he decided for these reasons that it was necessary to make war on the Romans."[4]

The first paragraph of this entry is also in other lexica; references at Photius pi1015, where Theodoridis identifies the source of the headword phrase itself (left unspecified by Adler) as Thucydides 1.79.2.
[1] On the broad sense of ἐπίρρημα required here, see generally Dickey 127.
[2] Thucydides 1.86.3.
[3] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.3.55.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.